Theodore Omtzigt

Theodore Omtzigt is the founder of Stillwater Supercomputing, a company devoted to building the next generation platform for computational science and engineering. Stillwater believes that the 21st century belongs to the computational scientist and that many important innovations will be driven by computational models. It seeks to aid in that quest with a high productivity environment for data mining, quantitative finance, statistics, and computational science.

Theodore Omtzigt's Blog
The shift created by SaaS as well as Cloud Computing is retargeting the IT
supported business process services towards the mid-market where it will
proliferate in a very different direction. The value that is created by the
on-demand capacity inherent to Cloud Computing is the big differentiator here
for both startup and established business.
Whereas SaaS is predominantly a Business Process Outsourcing trend, Cloud
Computing is predominantly an IT operation outsourcing trend. IBM and its
shift towards services, supported by best-in-class hardware, has been leading
this IT outsourcing concept for more than a decade now. However, IBM's main
clientele have been large scale, high-availability, high-liability business
such as Wall Street, credit card companies, and insurers. The shift created
by SaaS as well as Cloud Computing is retargeting the IT ... (more)

Theo Omtzigt's Blog
Virtualization in the data center allows hardware to be reused for multiple
services and provides a mechanism to extract more value out of a hardware
purchase. Virtualization also allows new business models like Amazon Web
Services, where the virtualization is leveraged to provide hardware for rent.
That model combined with scale allows for a dynamic resource allocation that
is very attractive for start-ups that do not have an IT workload that is
either constant or predictable.
Scientific research is much like the workload of a web service start-up:
potentiall... (more)